Posted on 04/25/2019 9:38:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Trump administration on Thursday detailed its plan to open more than a million acres of public and private land in California to fracking, raising environmental concerns at a time when opposition to oil and gas drilling in the state is intensifying.
The action would end a five-year moratorium on leasing federal land in California to oil and gas developers. That pause came after a federal judge ordered the Obama administration to halt similar leasing efforts until it could better evaluate the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.
Trump’s plan – first proposed by the administration in 2018 — targets public and private land spread across eight counties in Central California: eastern Fresno, western Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura.
The move drew immediate criticism from environmentalists, who said it would pose health risks and worsen air quality in a part of the state notorious for pollution.
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Fracking has been going on in cali for 50 years already. This is total left wing BS.
effin idiots. what do they have to offer in Cali other than a hih speed train run by windmills?
Time for good Governor Craven Pondscum III to leap into
action. I love when Trump fires off preemptive rounds
at butt nuggets like this.
Imagine the tax money that Cali could obtain from oil.
Nah, they’d rather steal from citizens.
More drilling please.
I'd always known how California was founded on crude. :^) Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Ooh, a whole million acres of California’s approximately 100 million acres of land.
The action would end a five-year moratorium on leasing federal land in California to oil and gas developers. That pause came after a federal judge ordered the Obama administration to halt similar leasing efforts until it could better evaluate the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.
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So what the dirty rotten scoundrels at the LA Times are saying is that fracking was found to be safe.
opposition from whom, exactly? with gas at 4.19/gal ?
Good. Now please make it happen and ignore the leftist judge who inevitably will write 20,000 words that confuse the reader and will conclude somehow this action is unconstitutional which, of course, it is not.
JoMa
Frack baby Frack...
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